STATUS QUO
Current Project Status
The Open Data & Knowledge Graph project strengthens the data-based infrastructure of German tourism. The aim is to provide standardized, interoperable and openly usable tourism content.
The project is jointly supported by the German National Tourist Board (GNTB), the state tourism organizations (LTO) and the Magic Cities. The technical basis is the Germany Knowledge Graph as a central open data hub. It bundles tourism data, links it semantically and makes it available in a structured form for partners, platforms and digital applications.
The following timeline shows the current developments and milestones since the start of the project in 2018.
Project History
May 2021
Milestone 1 Implementation of Knowledge Graph
Milestone 1 was successfully reached in the implementation of the Knowledge Graph for German tourism.
Goal: Milestone 1 combines and illustrates the preparation of 1-2 domains, data import and demo queries in a first basic implementation.
Result: The domains POI, Tours & Events were prepared, first test data imported and demo queries performed.
December 2020
Project start Implementation Knowledge Graph
Kick-off meeting for the implementation of the Knowledge Graph for German Tourism with the project partners involved.
Goal: Common understanding of the project
Result: Definition of further steps
November 2020
Transfer of the DACH-KG to the Open Data Tourism Alliance (ODTA)
Transfer of the DACH-KG into a new organizational form, the Open Data Tourism Alliance
Goal: Standardization of semantic markup of data based on schema.org and initiation of model projects
Result: Development of a jointly agreed procedure on how to coordinate a standardization of the data sets.
December 2019
Concept of the Knowledge Graph
Call for tenders for the implementation of a common knowledge graph for German tourism
Goal: Development of a Knowledge Graph as a data hub for Germany as a travel destination
Result: Start of the conception for the technical implementation of the Knowledge Graph
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